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retrial definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1852 a second trial, experiment, or test; specifically a second judicial trial

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a second or further (judicial) trial.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Retrial Re*tri"al, n. A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(retrials) A retrial is a second trial of someone for the same offence. Judge Ian Starforth Hill said the jury's task was 'beyond the realms of possibility' and ordered a retrial. N-COUNT: usu sing